Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Surf, Baby!

I've never bought any Mac products before, as much as I would like, because (to me) their expensive, that's not to say I don't think they're good quality or worth the price, its just that when I see how much the products are I get disheartened because I can't afford to spend that kind of money on makeup. I'm not single and have a Mortgage, loans and credit cards to pay-off, so treating myself to something as gorgeous as this would take place very rarely and definitely without my husband's knowledge.

But Surf Baby has launched and I wanted to buy a couple of things and seeing as I'm a nail polish junkie I decided to buy the two nail polishes from this collection called Ocean Dip (turquoise) and Hangin Loose (nude).

I don't live near a Mac store but I'm 30 minutes from a Debenhams. I decided to order online because by the time I got to Debenhams it'd probably be sold out. I went to the Mac store on Debenhams, both nail polishes were available so stupidly I went and made lunch, did some housework and came back to the site but Hangin Loose had sold out!

I bought Ocean Dip right away because I didn't want to miss out on that too. I still really wanted Hangin Loose so I found a seller on Ebay from South London who wasn't asking for too much money £16.50 (they were £10.00 each at Debenhams), so I bought Hangin Loose too total cost £18.50. It may sound expensive for just one nail polish but when I worked out how much it'd cost me to get the bus and then a train to my closest Debenhams it would cost more. Another thing that was a good deal was getting free postage from Debenhams. Ocean Dip cost £10.00 incl. postage.

The only other Surf Baby item I'd like is the over sprayed Hibiscus flower, but its not on Debenhams and another Ebay is selling it for £35 each.

This is what she looks like, isn't she gorgeous?

I painted my nails right away (both were received today) and I'm pretty impressed with Ocean Dip I have no top coat on, nor a base coat and I've done the washing, vacuuming, folding clean laundry, stacked the dishwasher and cleaned the bathroom without gloves and not one nail has chipped and it dried superfast. I was worried the colour in the bottle wasn't the true nail colour, but in just two coats it was perfect!